Ivan Knotek

Knotek was born in Senica on 26 August 1936.^[1][2] He was a member of both the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and the Slovak Communist Party.^[3] Between 1969 and 1981 he was the chief secretary of the latter's district committee in Galanta.^[1] He became a member of the Czech Communist Party's Politburo in April 1988.^[3] He was the chairman of the Politburo's two commissions, agriculture and food commission and youth work commission between 1987 and 1988.^[3] He retained his Politburo membership in the reshuffle on 10–11 October 1988.^[4][5]

He was also named prime minister on 12 October 1988, replacing Peter Colotka in the post.^[6] With this appointment he automatically became the deputy federal prime minister along with the Czech Prime Minister Ladislav Adamec.^[6][7] Knotek's tenure as prime minister ended on 22 June 1989, and he was succeeded by Pavel Hrivnák in the post.^[8] Then he served as the Communist Party's secretary for economic affairs.^[5] In a November 1989 reshuffle, Knotek retained his post at the politburo.^[9]

Knotek died in Galanta on 11 March 2020 at the age of 83.^[2]